H3588A–כִּי–ki

For a sound of weeping goes up from Zion, a cry, How has destruction come on us? we are overcome with shame because we have gone away from our land; he has sent us out from our house.

כִּ֣י ki “for”כִּֽי־ ki- “for”כִּ֥י ki “for”

But even now, give ear to the word of the Lord, O you women; let your ears be open to the word of his mouth, training your daughters to give cries of sorrow, everyone teaching her neighbour a song of grief.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

For death has come up into our windows, forcing its way into our great houses; cutting off the children in the streets and the young men in the wide places.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

But if any man has pride, let it be in this, that he has the wisdom to have knowledge of me, that I am the Lord, working mercy, giving true decisions, and doing righteousness in the earth: for in these things I have delight, says the Lord.

כִּ֚י ki “that”כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

On Egypt and on Judah and on Edom and on the children of Ammon and on Moab and on all who have the ends of their hair cut, who are living in the waste land: for all these nations and all the people of Israel are without circumcision in their hearts.

כִּ֤י ki “for”

This is what the Lord has said: Do not go in the way of the nations; have no fear of the signs of heaven, for the nations go in fear of them.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

For that which is feared by the people is foolish: it is the work of the hands of the workman; for a tree is cut down by him out of the woods with his axe.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

It is like a pillar in a garden of plants, and has no voice: it has to be lifted, for it has no power of walking. Have no fear of it; for it has no power of doing evil and it is not able to do any good.

כִּ֣י ki “for”כִּי־ ki- “for”

Who would not have fear of you, O King of the nations? for it is your right: for among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is no one like you.

כִּ֥י ki “for”כִּ֣י ki “that”

Then every man becomes like a beast without knowledge; every gold-worker is put to shame by the image he has made: for his metal image is deceit, and there is no breath in them.

כִּ֛י ki “for”

The heritage of Jacob is not like these; for the maker of all things is his heritage: the Lord of armies is his name.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

For the Lord has said, I will send the people in flight like a stone from the land at this time, troubling them so that they will be conscious of it.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

For the keepers of the sheep have become like beasts, not looking to the Lord for directions: so they have not done wisely and all their flocks have been put to flight.

כִּ֤י ki “for”

O Lord, I am conscious that a man's way is not in himself: man has no power of guiding his steps.

כִּ֛י ki “that”

Let your wrath be let loose on the nations which have no knowledge of you, and on the families who give no worship to your name: for they have made a meal of Jacob, truly they have made a meal of him and put an end to him and made his fields a waste.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

For I gave certain witness to your fathers on the day when I took them up out of the land of Egypt, and even to this day, getting up early and witnessing and saying, Give ear to my voice.

כִּי֩ ki “for”

For the number of your gods is as the number of your towns, O Judah; and for every street in Jerusalem you have put up altars to the Baal for burning perfumes to the Baal.

כִּ֚י ki “for”

And as for you, make no prayers for this people, send up no cry or prayer for them: for I will not give ear to their cry in the time of their trouble.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

About Judah. What have you to do in my house? is it your thought that oaths and holy flesh will get you out of your trouble? will you make yourself safe in this way?

כִּ֥י ki “for”

But I was like a gentle lamb taken to be put to death; I had no thought that they were designing evil against me, saying, Come and let us make trouble his food, cutting him off from the land of the living, so that there may be no more memory of his name.

כִּֽי־ ki- “that”

But, O Lord of armies, judging in righteousness, testing the thoughts and the heart, let me see your punishment come on them: for I have put my cause before you.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

Not one of them will keep his life, for I will send evil on the men of Anathoth in the year of their punishment.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

You are in the right, O Lord, when I put my cause before you: still let me take up with you the question of your decisions: why does the evil-doer do well? why are the workers of deceit living in comfort?

כִּ֥י ki “if”

How long will the land have grief, and the plants of all the land be dry? because of the sins of the people living in it, destruction has overtaken the beasts and the birds; because they said, God does not see our ways.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

If running with the fighting-men has made you tired, how will you be able to keep up with horses? and if in a land of peace you go in flight, what will become of you in the thick growth of Jordan?

כִּ֣י ki “if”